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The reporter learned that "adjusting structure and promoting balance" will become the main keynote of foreign trade work in 2010.

In December 15th, the insider of the Ministry of Commerce disclosed to our reporter that next year's policy orientation will promote the facilitation of import trade, further reduce the examination and approval of import trade and simplify the import automatic license registration. In promoting domestic expansion and opening up, the Ministry of Commerce will continue to push down all kinds of tariff and non-tariff, and open up manufacturing and service industries.

In addition, we should promote key industries and promote the introduction of industry support policies, such as energy conservation and environmental protection, high and new technology industries, and promote the restructuring of Chinese enterprises and the development of service industry.

Wei Jianguo, Secretary General of the China International Economic Exchange Center and deputy director of the Ministry of Commerce, said that China's previous research on imports was not enough. The state's big trade policy did not take into account imports, but merely encouraged exports.

At the central economic work conference, which has just been concluded, the foreign trade work has also changed. The meeting put forward "insisting on equal emphasis on exports and imports, absorbing foreign investment and foreign investment, and working hard to widen the way of international economic cooperation and continuously improve the level of opening up to the outside world".

High export growth is difficult to sustain

China's export situation this year is obviously better than market expectations.

Data show that from 1 to November, China's import and export value was US $2 trillion and 677 billion 280 million, an increase of 36.3% over the same period last year.

Of which, exports amounted to 1 trillion and 423 billion 850 million US dollars, an increase of 33%; imports of US $1 trillion and 253 billion 430 million, an increase of 40.3%, and a trade surplus of US $170 billion 420 million.

In fact, at the end of last year, the Ministry of Commerce estimated that the import and export growth rate will be between 8% and 10% this year. However, from the data of foreign trade from 1 to November, the actual recovery of exports is far beyond this expectation.

"Export growth is expected to be between 28% and 30% this year."

With the analysis of the foreign trade system, the Ministry of Commerce has raised the estimated annual export growth to 25% in 2010.

But this growth rate may be difficult to sustain.

Earlier, a number of key foreign trade provinces and cities predicted that the growth of external demand in the first half of 2011 will obviously slow down, and it is difficult to reproduce the trend of rapid growth this year.

The information of the Canton Fair in autumn 2010 showed that export orders were not strong, and mostly short orders.

Pessimists even estimated that exports could be negative growth in 2011.

"Even if it is not negative growth, the growth rate will be very limited."

Wei Jianguo told reporters that "China's foreign trade next year is generally not optimistic, and it is expected to drop by 10 to 15 percentage points."

The commerce ministry insiders said that from 2012, China's foreign trade will be more focused on restructuring, and the target of foreign trade growth is expected to be lowered accordingly.

Huo Jianguo, President of the Ministry of Commerce, also gave the same judgement.

He estimated that the export growth interval in 2011 was roughly 15% to 16%, and imports grew slightly higher than exports, and the growth interval was locked at 17% to 18%.

Focus on expanding imports

Importing such a high position of imports is the first time in the country's overall strategy.

In fact, from the second half of 2010, the foreign trade policy has shown signs of turning.

Reporters noted that in recent years, officials of the Ministry of Commerce on many occasions talked about adopting a series of measures to further expand imports and maintain balanced development of foreign trade.

In order to further expand imports, our government has adopted a series of policies and measures.

It mainly includes: lowering import tariffs, reducing the total tariff level of China's imports to 9.8% in 2010, and further reducing the import tariffs on some raw materials and final consumer goods, and issuing relevant policies on domestic processing trade.

However, in 2011, the Ministry of Commerce will focus more on expanding imports.

The Ministry of Commerce has revealed to our reporter that the Ministry of Commerce will focus on encouraging imports from countries with trade deficits with China, and even consider opening up the market unilaterally, easing import regulation, lowering import costs and simplifying the import financing of domestic enterprises.

In addition, in 2011, the Ministry of Commerce will also support and organize various forms of investment and Trade Promotion Group's "going out" investment and procurement.

To expand imports, Bai Ming, deputy director of the International Market Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce and international trade and economic cooperation, said: "the products that China needs to import are concentrated in two fields of technology and resources, especially in the resources sector, such as iron ore, crude oil and so on."

To further improve the level of trade facilitation, China will further clean up non-tariff measures, change and improve policies and measures and customs inspection links, continue to simplify and relax some import management measures, reduce import links and procedures, and reduce import costs and costs.

Long Guoqiang, Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Research of the State Council Development Research Center, told reporters that Europe and the United States should first relax their control over China's technology exports; China should further open the market unilaterally, give preferential treatment to the least developed economies, and promote regional trade and multilateral trade liberalization, thereby increasing imports.

Unification of domestic and foreign trade

It is worth mentioning that next year is the first year of the 12th Five-Year plan. Therefore, next year's foreign trade work should focus on the current and long-term.

It is understood that during 12th Five-Year, China's foreign trade development mode focused on restructuring, quality, technology and standards, and urged the pformation of processing trade.

Therefore, in 2011, the Ministry of Commerce will also help foreign trade enterprises enter the domestic market step by step.

"I believe that after several years, especially in 12th Five-Year, China's foreign trade structure will be greatly changed and upgraded, and the domestic and foreign trade market will be integrated into one.

I think China's domestic market will obviously surpass Japan to become the second largest domestic market in the world.

Chen Deming, Minister of Commerce, said so when he studied foreign trade in Guangzhou.

Some foreign trade circles believe that, as the scale continues to expand, China's foreign trade team will also undergo fundamental changes due to changes in the international market pattern and the pformation of the domestic economic development mode.

Bai Ming said that the direction of development of China's foreign trade in the next 5 years will be changed from the current "thousand soldiers" to the "strong troops and strong forces" type. Enterprises with a single product and lack of bargaining power will be phased out.

With the unification of the domestic and foreign trade market, the product chain and industrial chain of China's foreign trade enterprises will further elongate in the future, close to the current production and operation mode of multinational enterprises in developed countries, and manufacturing enterprises will change from "made in China" to "created in China" from their own needs.